Newt Gingrich’s passing familiarity with personal responsibility

I think the Democratic leadership has to take some moral responsibility for having behaved with such arrogance, in such a hostile way, that the American people are deeply upset.

On Meet the Press last Sunday, Gingrich (rightly) denounced Paul Ryan and the Republican House’s attempt to end Medicare as we know it. Gingrich said:

I don’t think right-wing social engineering is any more desirable than left-wing social engineering. I don’t think imposing radical change from the right or the left is a very good way for a free society to operate.

Were in a phase here where, if you are a conservative, you better expect gotcha press and they took dramatically out of context what I said and tried to make it dramatically a fight between me and Paul Ryan.

Even conservatives didn’t buy that. I mean, it is right there on video: Gingrich voluntarily forms the words and they escape his maw. So Gingrich is kicking up the personal responsibility a notch.

Gingrich is now warning that any ad that accurately quotes what he said is a falsehood:

Newt is so personally responsible that absolutely nothing he does is his fault. Seems like a sweet deal.